Vasili Krumovski

Vasili Krumovski (14 June 1952-16 September 2002) was a Bulgarian Serb civil rights activist.

Biography
Vasili Krumovski was born in the city of Leskovac in southeastern Yugoslavia to an Orthodox Christian Bulgarian family from the border town of Glavanovtsi. His parents Milo Krumovski and Sofia Nestorskaya both fled from Bulgaria to avoid communism and became a working-class family in Leskovac. However, the 6.4% minority of Bulgarians were oppressed due to their ethnic differences from the Yugoslav Slavic majority, and Krumovski was bullied in his primary education. He was denied access to the University of Belgrade by Serbian authorities, so he eventually moved to the Soviet Union and graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow. Krumovski served in the Soviet Army from 1971 to 1975, and was promoted to Sergeant by the end of his service. He married Natalia Serghis, a Russian woman from Moscow, and lived in Russia until the government's collapse in 1989. Krumovski left for Yugoslavia once more, and during the revolutions of 1989, he protested for Bulgarian Serbs' rights in society. In September 2002, he held a rally in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia and Montenegro to discuss the issues of segregation between Bulgars and Serbs. Krumovski was killed by a Serbian nationalist with a Glock handgun, shot three times in the left side of his neck and his left shoulder.